User Guide
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Sonic Studio Strix Series User Guide
English
How it works:
The channel mixer window contains 8 vertical sliders allowing you to ne tune each
audio channel by applying a gain between +18 dB and -36 dB. It allows you to
apply a gain on a specic audio channel, not to change its volume. This way, even
if you apply a maximum negative gain on a channel (-36 dB), you can still hear
some sound if you are using high volume.
This feature is modifying input channels. This means that on this window, you can
only impact the original les’ channels, regardless of the output format you chose.
For example:
• if you are playing a 7.1-channel le in stereo mode, the channel mixer will
allow you to apply a gain on each 8 channels of the original le, even if the
output is only stereo;
• if you are playing a stereo le in 7.1-channel mode, the channel mixer will
only impact the 2 original stereo channels.
Notes:
• The Channel Mixer does not allow applying gains on encoded les using
Dolby or DTS formats. We do not decode Dolby or DTS format les and
hence when undecoded we do not apply gains on it via the channel mixer.
This means that the gains will not be usable when:
- the les are played in a player that doesn’t decode Dolby or DTS
formats (WMP for example),
- the output device is SPDIF (because SPDIF has only stereo inputs).
• If the player is able to decode the le (Power DVD can do it), channel mixer
will be usable, regardless of the input format (SPDIF or other).
This way, if you are playing a multi-channel le with Power DVD, set up
Power DVD in multi-channel and use the channel mixer. It will work for all
the channels.
• If you are playing a multi-channel le with Windows Media Player, it will not
work, because WMP is not able to decode DTS or Dolby les.
• You must use a non-encoded le to test (MP3, WAV, etc).
• Difference between gain and volume: a gain is a positive or negative boost
that you apply on a specic channel. The volume is a global info which will
impact all the channels of the le.